Document Type
Conference Paper
Journal/Book Title/Conference
37th American Society for Composites (ASC) Technical Conference
Publisher
American Society for Composites Technical Conference
Location
Tucson, AZ
Publication Date
9-19-2022
First Page
1
Last Page
16
Abstract
Three stochastic air blast models are developed with spatially varying elastic properties and failure strengths for predicting lightning mechanical damage to AS4/3506 carbon/epoxy composites subjected to < 100 kA peak currents: (1) the conventional weapon effects program (CWP) model, (2) the coupled eulerianlagrangian (CEL) model, and (3) the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) model. This work is an extension of our previous studies [1–4] that used deterministic air blast models for lightning mechanical damage prediction. Stochastic variations in composite material properties were generated using the Box-Muller transformation algorithm with the mean (i.e., room temperature experimental data) and their standard deviations (i.e., 10% of the mean herein as reference). The predicted dynamic responses and corresponding damage initiation prediction for composites under equivalent air blast loading were comparable for the deterministic and stochastic models. Overall, the domains with displacement, von-Mises stress, and damage initiation contours predicted in the stochastic models were somewhat sporadic and asymmetric along the fiber’s local orientation and varied intermittently. This suggests the significance of local property variations in lightning mechanical damage prediction. Thus, stochastic air blast models may provide a more accurate lightning mechanical damage approximation than traditional (deterministic) air blast models. All stochastic models proposed in this work demonstrated satisfactory accuracy compared to the baseline models, but required substantial computational time due to the random material model generation/assignment process, which needs to be optimized in future work.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Juhyeong and Hussain Shah, Syed Zulfiqar, "Predicting Stochastic Lightning Mechanical Damage Effects on Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites" (2022). Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications. Paper 201.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mae_facpub/201
Comments
This article appeared in the Proceedings of the American Society for Composites: Thirty-seventh Technical Conference, 2022. Lancaster, PA: DEStech Publications, Inc. This is the accepted or "post-print" version of the conference paper.